Key points

Resilience is not toughness—it’s adapting, creating, and reimagining life after loss.

Everyday creativity helps us reorganize chaos and make meaning through hardship.

Expressive acts like writing or art turn pain into coherence, agency, and healing.

Creativity is resilience in action: flexible, adaptive, and life-affirming.

I’ve never had an impulse towards interior design. That is until I got the fated call from my sister one cold January night.

“I got Mom’s results. The lesions on her brain are malignant.”

After a few terse questions and answers, we ended the call. I shed no tears nor was I seized with anguish. My head thrummed hot.

I don’t know what possessed me. I walked into the master bedroom and began rearranging the furniture. Sure, the physicality of lifting hea

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